From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:28:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101232832.GS4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040101232345.GB5143@lst.de>
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:23:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:21:37PM +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > Obvious: we need at least some rules regarding who can and who can not
> > play with that field. IOW, which filesystem?
>
> Okay, let's make it more general. Throw the filesystem completly out of
> the few and say the private data can be used by the owner of that
> blockdevice as established by bd_claim, okay?
OK... One question: what rules do you want wrt multiple claims with the
same owner?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-01 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-01 16:42 [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-01 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-01 23:21 ` viro
2004-01-01 23:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-01 23:28 ` viro [this message]
2004-01-01 23:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-04 22:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-01 23:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-02 2:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-02 8:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
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